Please join our HiveMind conversation on protecting and restoring biodiversity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Should we prioritise indigenous species? What should we do about rats, deer and trout? Should we use 1080? What about
the Treaty of Waitangi: what should be done to enable kaitiakitanga? Should there be incentives for private landowners
to protect and restore biodiversity? These are some of the issues dividing the people taking part in our interactive
Biodiversity HiveMind, which launched on 5 August.
Scoop and PEP invite you to join the discussion and share your issues, ideas and perspectives on biodiversity. We also invite you to
encourage other people to take part. Click here to find out more about the Biodiversity HiveMind and take part.
Common Ground
At a time when opinion can seem polarised, Scoop’s HiveMind process is able to identify areas of common ground. For
example, almost everyone seems to agree that we should innovate to become more inclusive of nature and biodiversity in
our city/town designs, that owning water rights should not allow owners to degrade the resource, and that we should be
creating more mainland sanctuaries and marine reserves. None of these things are included in the DOC-led discussion document.
Participation rates
There’s been a lot of interest.
Over 280 people have voted more than 11,000 times on a range of ideas and proposals. And lots of people have ideas. So
far, 48 people have added over 120 ideas for other participants to consider.
Be in quickly if you want to share your biodiversity ideas. You will be able to add statements for others to consider
until 1 September 2019.
You will be able to continue voting until 8 September. We will publish a findings report by 23 September 2019.
If you already took part earlier, please return to the Biodiversity HiveMind to review emerging opinion, consider new statements and add your own statements. HiveMind remembers which statements
you have already considered and will present you with new ones.
Our Biodiversity HiveMind is one way for you to take part in the DOC-led public consultation on proposals for a new NZ
Biodiversity Strategy. Information about other ways to take part are available here.
The Dig Biodiversity Journalism
Scoop’s new platform The Dig is running an in-depth journalism series on Biodiversity.
In the first guest post Whose Biodiversity Is It Anyway? award-winning journalist and photographer Dave Hansford asks this thought provoking question:
"The DOC-led draft Biodiversity Strategy seeks a 'shared vision.' But there are more values and views around wildlife
than there are species. How can we hope to agree on the shape of Aotearoa’s future biota?" Read Now On The Dig >>
You can also help us continue this discussion in the Scoop Citizen Members Forum >>